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[QUOTE="Wintermute, post: 946307, member: 62144"] Lori rolls in and we're 8 minutes down after the 20 minute reset. She looks beat so I tell her to take a couple to collect her wits. She asks how far down we are and I tell her. Lori takes a breather and a couple of swigs off of her camelback and we start back off on the trail. Lori tell me later that she spotted Farmer John on the trail and then again at the reset. We need roads, we get and 18 mph speed average and jeep and ATV wide trails, but they are intermittantly full of rocks. I'm pushing to make up time and for a while we do. Then the trail starts getting more rocky and we're working hard just to stay where we're at. I start heading down a rocky down hill that is turning to the left when all of a sudden I see a blue fender hurtling through the air in front of me. I round the corner a bit more and there's Chuck again, stopped, without his front fender. I stop and ask if he's OK. He says he's allright aside from the MIA bodywork so I head on down the trail. Chuck catches up to me as I'm adjusting my mileage at a corner. Now that he has his wits about him he's moving faster than Lori. Lori catches up and we continue down the trail. The rocks are sapping our energy bad. The previous section was a long one and we didn't get to rest much at the reset. Lori is riding tough though and with one final section of tight trees we hit another check and roll into the gas. We have 5 minutes and 30 seconds before we are scheduled to leave. We quick throw gas in the bikes grab some liquids and are back underway. Much thanks go to Matt for pitting for us and the other club guys, it really is a huge help. Our minute comes up and we're off again. Gravel road until about mile 92 where there is a turn into a woods trail. I have been having to adjust my computer a fair amount the whole ride. I've been thinking that my wheel size may not be 100% accurate. Hopefully it's close enough. We come to the turn at mile 92 and I adjust the computer, pause for a moment and then head into the woods. less than 100 yards in there's a check and, Eeep, the cards are still on 35. I quick stand up and bust out my best slow ride. I'm not allowed to weave or stop and put a foot down but I can ride slow straight for the flags and hope that my minute comes up before I get there. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. They turn the card and wave us in. Whew a zero. They mark our cards and we dive into another woods section. This is a fun section and I'm having a good time despite the fact that we're nearing the end of the race. This part is smoother with less rock than the last sections. Lori is doing well too. However the section is fairly long and we check though the back side still 10 minutes down after the last reset. Fortunately we have a lot of road ahead of us. We're slowly making time back up as we work our way down several gravel roads and onto a short stretch of pavement. Here we encounter the only rattlesnake I've seen all day. He's road pizza but I can tell as I zoom by that its definitely a rattler. Still trying to make up time we turn off the pavement and back onto gravel roads. This is a neat one that climbs through a dark ravine up towards the top of the hill. I'm periodically passing whole minutes worth of riders as I work my way back up to our minute. Lori is now experiencing major brain and body fade and is falling back a bit. I recognize where we are and I can tell that we are headed back to the campground. Just one trip around the grass track and were done! I enter the camp grounds and ride to within sight of the grasstrack which is almost impossible to see as it is obscured by a thick, dull orange dust cloud. Yeah, this will be fun. I follow the trail along the edge of the grass track. They're running us backwards so we get to start with the dark maze of overgrown Christmas trees and that rough trail from the morning. Ugh. I roll into the trees, passing a WR426 who is just spinning his electric starter without much effect. After about a mile of trees I hit a short chute, a right turn and a check. 37 not bad. Another couple of easy straights and its back onto that rough woods trail. I'm fading fast but still trying to push a good pace here at the end. I'm carefully trying to pick the smoothest lines as I'm nearing the exhaustion point and my hands are starting to hurt. My attention fades for a moment and I low-side a corner. I'm to tired to get mad or even say, "Doh!" I pick the bike up and thumb the starter and I'm back underway. I REALLY like electric start at times like this. I have a few tenths of really ragged riding before I get back in my groove but I manage to get out of the woods and onto the grasstrack without any more stupid manuvers. A near miracle occurs as I roll onto the grasstrack. The dust has largely cleared and I manage to circulate the track with good vision and no lungfuls of central PA's finest topsoil. Woo. Fatigue nearly bites me again though as I hit the first jump on the track. My throttle hand is lazy and the bike noses over into a scary front wheel landing. Yikes, note to self watch those jumps don't need any ugly crashes now. A couple miles later and I'm ever so relieved to make it to the finish and turn in my card. Enduro finishes always seem anti-climactic, you have no idea where you finished and you're usually just glad its over. I park my bike and crash into a chair under our canopy. It's hot out, probably mid 80's and I'm whipped that last bit took the last of my energy. I sit there watching for Lori. At last I see her and I walk up to the ribbon to cheer her on as she goes by. She's beat, I can tell from watching her ride, but she makes it to the finish and gets a cheer from the rest of the STER guys who are waiting there. We're tired and we take our time packing up in the heat. Matt cooks us some burgers and we eventually get everything back in the trailer. We drive the truck up the hill to the pavilion to check on the scores. Hey we both got wood, Lori earns a third in the Womens class with 109 points I get a 2nd (out of 2) in C 4 stroke with my 96 point card. All in all we had a great time. :) Good weather, good trail, and Lori finished a non-Jersey enduro without assistance. I never did see Farmer John. ---------------------------------------------------- Problem: Feet are cold and wet, glass is empty. Cause: Improper use of glass. Solution: Turn glass so that open end points to the celing and refill. [/QUOTE]
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